"Christianity Incorporated": Sinclair Lewis and the Taylorization of American Protestantism
In this essay, I argue that Sinclair Lewis's finest works from the 1920s are devoted to examining the conflation of economy and religion in modern America. In Main Street (1920), Lewis contends that the effort to standardize American culture is the result of the apotheosis of Frederick Winslow...
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University of Notre Dame
[2018]
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Religion & literature
Year: 2018, Volume: 50, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 65-89 |
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USA
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/ Taylor, Frederick Winslow 1856-1915
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/ Lewis, Sinclair 1885-1951
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B TAYLOR, Frederick Winslow, 1856-1915 B Protestantism B TAYLORISM (Management) B Christianity |
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